Marketplaces

Most online-marketplace entrepreneurs, investors, and executives all agree that a big market size and total addressable market (TAM for the business g…

A little less than a year ago, we published the Battery Network Effects Index, a market index including 36 current or previously publicly traded, cons…

One Y Combinator–incubated startup founder makes the case for “STEAM” over “STEM.” The push to teach kids coding and technology now extends even to Se…

So far, 2017 has been a non-stop PR headache for Uber, and that’s putting it mildly. From the online #DeleteUber campaign to explosive sexual harassme…

Social networks may be the most valuable and durable types of businesses powered by “network effects,” the phenomenon of products or services becoming…

“Category kings”, defined as market-share leaders in particular business sectors, often wind up creating the majority of the market value relative to …

The Battery Ventures Network Effect Index—which includes 36 current or previously publicly traded companies, each valued at $1 billion or more—highlig…

In the last two decades, dozens of traditional industries have been “Amazoned”—turned upside down by new business models made possible by the Internet…

On Oct. 2, online home-furnishings purveyor Wayfair went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), pricing its shares above the anticipated range.…